THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 



pouched mammals, raccoon, red fox, muskrat, mink, skunk, 

 woodchuck, porcupine and gray squirrel. The furs of 

 nearly all these animals are used commercially. 



The first large group in the center of the hall is that of 

 the moose, in a setting representing an early autumn scene 

 in a second-growth forest. 10 This is followed by a group 

 illustrating the color phases of the black bear and by the 

 Lynx and Otter Groups. Adjoining these is a large group 

 of American bison, on a mounting of a typical bit of prairie 

 traversed by buffalo trails, and near-by a group of the 

 Atlantic walrus. 



On the south side of the hall are excellent groups of the 

 collared peccary from Mexico, also groups of caribou and 

 musk-ox, which furnish food and clothing to the natives 

 and explorers of the far North, antelope and deer, wild 

 boar from the Black Forest of Germany, polar bear, Stone's 

 mountain sheep from Alaska and bighorn sheep from Mon- 

 tana. 



On the north side, the Roosevelt elk or wapiti may be 

 found, followed by groups of Rocky Mountain goat; beaver, 

 showing these industrious little animals busy cutting trees 

 for building dams and houses and the interior of one of 

 their homes; many species of rats, mice, ground squirrels, 

 foxes, bats, coyotes, panthers; an excellent reproduction 

 of a fur seal rookery in the Pribilof Islands, where our 

 government seal fisheries are located; weasels in their sum- 

 mer and winter coats; the ferocious grizzly bear of the 



10 North American Ruminants— .10. 



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